Order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb

Order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb

Perspective projection view
from center of Poincaré disk model
Type Hyperbolic regular honeycomb
Uniform hyperbolic honeycomb
Schläfli symbol {5,3,5}
t0{5,3,5}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
Cells {5,3} (regular dodecahedron)
Faces {5} (pentagon)
Edge figure {5} (pentagon)
Vertex figure
icosahedron
Dual Self-dual
Coxeter group K3, [5,3,5]
Properties Regular

In hyperbolic geometry, the order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb is one of four compact regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs) in hyperbolic 3-space. With Schläfli symbol {5,3,5}, it has five dodecahedral cells around each edge, and each vertex is surrounded by twenty dodecahedra. Its vertex figure is an icosahedron.

A geometric honeycomb is a space-filling of polyhedral or higher-dimensional cells, so that there are no gaps. It is an example of the more general mathematical tiling or tessellation in any number of dimensions.

Honeycombs are usually constructed in ordinary Euclidean ("flat") space, like the convex uniform honeycombs. They may also be constructed in non-Euclidean spaces, such as hyperbolic uniform honeycombs. Any finite uniform polytope can be projected to its circumsphere to form a uniform honeycomb in spherical space.